Nigeria Breweries begins search for best Nigerian teacher for N10m reward

Nigerian Breweries Plc has announced the commencement of submission of entries for the 2024 edition of the Maltina-Teacher-of-the-Year (MToY) award.

The annual award with this year’s edition, 10th in the series, is to identify the best and most exemplary teachers in both the public and private secondary schools nationwide for reward and celebration.

Interestingly, the money prize for the overall winner and for the lesser prizes’ winners (first and second runners-up) and also the state champions have all been increased.

The grand prize winner for this year will receive N10 million cash prize instead of N6.5 million, which had been the prize for the past nine years, while the first and second runners-up will go home with N3 million and N2.5 million respectively instead of N1.5 million and N1.25 million previous prizes.

Also, all the state champions will now receive N1 million each instead of N500,000 given previously for the position.

The Managing Director of Nigerian Breweries Plc, Mr Hans Essaadi, announced the commencement of this year’s edition at a news conference in Lagos, saying the initiative has yielded a tremendous impact on teachers and the teaching profession as well as Nigeria’s education sector general.

According to him, Nigerian Breweries came up with the MToY award on the platform of its social arm, Felix Ohiwerei Education Trust Fund, and the entries are voluntary and free of charge to participating teachers.

Represented by the Human Resource Director, Mrs Grace Omo-Lamai, the Managing Director explained that aside the money prize, the overall winner will also receive a plaque and certificate and go for all-expenses-paid short- course training in Finland while his or her school will be entitled to a block of six classrooms or another project of priority for producing him or her.

He said all the winners will be unveiled at the grand finale and award night in Lagos in October.

Shedding light on the competition and criteria for participation, the Corporate Affairs Director, Nigerian Brewery Plc, Mrs Sade Morgan, declared that though the competition is free, participating teachers must be certified by the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) and must not be older than 55 years.

She noted that because of the increasing quality of entries each year, the cut-off marks to win the award had jumped from 50 percent to 60 percent and now to 75 percent.

She said the interested teachers could start sending their entries either physically or online through a dedicated website from Thursday18 Friday, July 19 as a closing date.

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